书目名称 | Tracing the Life Cycle of Ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
编辑 | Arjuna Tuzzi |
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概述 | Offers useful insights to perform quantitative analyses in qualitative environments.Explains how distant reading can be exploited to answer specific research questions.Written in non-technical languag |
丛书名称 | Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
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描述 | .This book demonstrates how quantitative methods for text analysis can successfully combine with qualitative methods in the study of different disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The book focuses on learning about the evolution of ideas of HSS disciplines through a distant reading of the contents conveyed by scientific literature, in order to retrieve the most relevant topics being debated over time. Quantitative methods, statistical techniques and software packages are used to identify and study the main subject matters of a discipline from raw textual data, both in the past and today. The book also deals with the concept of quality of life of words and aims to foster a discussion about the life cycle of scientific ideas...Textual data retrieved from large corpora pose interesting challenges for any data analysis method and today represent a growing area of research in many fields. New problems emerge from the growing availability of large databases and new methods are needed to retrieve significant information from thoselarge information sources. This book can be used to explain how quantitative methods can be part of the research instrumentation and the "too |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Text Mining; Distant Reading; Digital Methods; Digital Humanities; Life-Cycle of Ideas; History of Ideas; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97064-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-07296-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-97064-6Series ISSN 2199-0956 Series E-ISSN 2199-0964 |
issn_series | 2199-0956 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 |